The inability to recognize objects, despite being able to describe them in terms of form and color; may occur after localized brain damage.

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Also called face blindness. A condition characterized by the inability to recognize faces. Acquired prosopagnosia is caused by damage to the brain, particularly the fusiform gyrus. Developmental (or congenital) prosopagnosia is present from birth.

Prosopagnosia 

Breedlove, S. & Watson, N. (2017). Behavioral neuroscience, eighth edition. Oxford University Press.

Behavioral Neuroscience 8th Edition

A region on the inferior surface of the cortex, at the junction of temporal and occipital lobes, that has been associated with recognition of faces.

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